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Published by State Board of Forestry 
Sacramento, California, June, 1907 

This booklet will be mailed free upon 
application to the State' Forester 
Sacramento, California ..... 



W. W. Shannon, Superintendent of 
State Printing, Sacramento, Cal. . . 



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ALIFORNIA REDWOOD PARK is the only 
forest owned by the State of California. Its 
name, California Redwood Park, was not 
happily chosen and is apt to be misleading, 
for the tract is in no sense a "Park," as the 
term is generally understood, nor is it a 
"Grove," but in every sense a forest, 
being composed not only of a high story of 
large redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) , 
Douglas fir, and pine, and a lower story of 

madrone, tanbark oak, and other species, but also a dense 

growth of shrubs, flowers, ferns, and mosses. 

David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University, 
has said : 

"California Redwood Park is a leaf from the 
greatest of virgin forests, a sample of the redwoods 
as they have been for ten thousand years, and 
one which may be preserved for all times. 
Besides this, it is a botanical garden where the wax 
myrtle, the California nutmeg-tree, the California 
whortleberry, the clintonia, the oxalis, and all the 
other plants which follow the redwoods may be 
likewise saved for our descendants." 




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United States Senator Perkins has said: 

"I have traveled through the forests of Mari- 
posa, and I have driven through the wonderful 
forests of southern Germany, yet 1 have never 
seen the equal of California Redwood Park." 

California Redwood Park is situated in the western part of 
Santa Cruz County, in what is locally known as "The Big 
Basin," which is a circular depression in the Coast Range 
Mountains. The Park covers nearly 3,800 acres, occupy- 
ing the lowest part of the basin and extending in all direc- 
tions well up toward the rim rock surrounding it. 

Several mountain streams flow through the Park, tumbling 
in cascades over high rocky ledges or running tunefully over 
the sand and pebbles in more level places, flashing in the 
sunlight filtering through a break in the evergreen canopy 
overhead, or retreating through the overarching ferns. 

On one of the prettiest streams is located Governor's 
Camp, the summer home of the Warden and the camping 
place of visitors to the Park. The camp consists of several 
substantial buildings of sawn redwood surrounding a large 
cottage of unhewn redwood logs which is used as a living 
and dining room for visitors. The surrounding buildings are 
used for sleeping quarters, and when these are full, or, if 
preferred, tents and cots are provided. 



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California Redwood Park is administered by the State 
Board of Forestry, it is under the direct supervision of a 
Warden, whose entire time is devoted to duties in the Park. 
First among these is attending to the wants and comfort of 
visitors. 

The Park is most easily reached from the town of Boulder 
Creek, which is connected by rail with the Coast Line of the 
Southern Pacific Railroad at Pajaro. In summer a daily stage 
runs from Boulder Creek to Governor's Camp, a distance of 
twelve miles over an excellent mountain road. Private 
conveyances for the trip can be obtained at either Boulder 
Creek or Santa Cruz. 

The Park is equipped with a telephone, which may be 
used by visitors, and with a postoffice, where mail is received 
daily. 

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More detailed information will be furnished cheerfully on 
application to the Warden, California Redwood Park, Boulder 
Creek, California, or to the State Forester, Sacramento. 




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